The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-09
FLAG o. TRUCE.

Chicago Inter-O Ocean, Rep.
Some of the ..seaside editors" are licked
in advarce. The neither part Of the white
shirt floats from the gable end OF two
thirds of the newspapers down East.
They are we'll nigh on their knees beg
ging John Bull not to shoot, with
promise that there will be some OF the
talIest running done ever seen on this
continent. In case of unpleasantness, 1T
ID barely possible Lake Shore or Allan
tic editor would be willing to see gun
boats putting up from the Mississippi
through Hennepin canal.
BLUFF.
New York Herald. Ind.
The Macdonald government in Canada
is playing a game of bluff with us;
but the Canadian people will force Sir
John to- .'climb down" whenever Con-
gres- adopts an adequate policy OF self
defense. The asIute Canadian chief
picked no courage when the Senate
passed the E.dmunds bill. because that
does not hurt. But the Belmont bill, he
confessed, is ''severe, very severe. Let
the House pass the Belmont bill. We
are curious to see what the fierce Repub-
IIcans in the Senate will say about IL.
Brook yn Eag e.
The accounts that come from the South
in regard to the growth OF new indus
tries In that region read like a fairy tale,
yet there is no reason to doubt their suO-
sIantial truth. They chow that this part
of the Union, once blghted with the
curse of slavery and with no other re-
source but the cultivation of the soil, Is
becoming the seat Of great manufac-
lures which threaten the supremacy SO
long enjoyed by the States that were
earlier in the field.
New York Sun Und).
No doubt there is truth in the remark
of MIR. Grosvenor, of Ohio, who said that
this bill is a great stride toward the Cen
tralzaiion of the government yet 1t Is
Capitalization which the Constitution
seems especially to allow. The opinion
of experts on it's effects is various and
conti adictory, but experience Will pres
emily show to- the country whether the
bill is good or bad. and whether it will be
bad a. good for the railroads and the
people.
THE LAST WAR AND THE NEXT.
New York sun.
1t IN about time to stop devising new
ways to expend millions on account of
the war that ended twenty-two years
ago, and to begin on the war that Is
ahead.
The so called Dependent Pension bill,
now in the hands of the President for his
signature. is a humbug. Like all the
wholesale pension legislation of the past
few years, it is a creature of sham senti-
ment and deliberate fraud, a thing " bich
Congress lacked the manliness to stran-
gle be fore il got far away from the cranks
and the claim agents whO gave it being.
IL is safe to- say that this Government
satisfied long ago AMI with unexampled
hberality nine hundred and ninety y nine
out OF every thousand of the Just claims
Of the widows and orphans and disabled
of the War of the Reb. lIion upon its
b punty.
The Arrears of Pension act was passed
eight years ago on the strength of the
assurance by its promoters that it could
not possibly require in the aggregate
more than $25, ,0OO, 900. The total
amount already paid out on account of
thi. legislation is more than 5000, ,OOO, 900.
liz MIR. Cleve' and signs the Dependent
Pension bill, he will create q new class
in the country, a class of pauper vete-
raIs, and the glory of the. Union cause
will expire in "a grand scramble OF can
didatss for the badge of mendicancv.
tie will also add to the annual expenses
Of the Government "A new fixed charge
Of an amount as vet undetermined. but
probably from $50, 900. 900 to $.5, ,OOO, 900
year.
1t would be a wise and patriotic act if
MIR Cleveland should veto this bill. The
money which il is proposed to give away
in satisfaction of shadowy claims based
on the last war, is urgently needed to
meet the expense of preparation for the
next war to come.
The future as well as the past has it's
TespoI sitilitieS.